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Not Sure.
I wonder if there is an advantage in buying one brand or the other? Besides the logos. Celestron is a huge company. But I have no idea how well they handle issues. I've only owned SCT's and older Japan made binoculars from them. Never had any issues. I only recently even heard of Opticron. How well do they stand behind what they sell?That's the one.
More of a twilight/hunting bino. I have a Kite 8x56 but rarely use it. It's excellent but large.
The "Skymaster"-series is notorious for collimation issues. I have never had one arrive in proper alignment. Two out of two were mis-aligned. Never bought another one.
The "Ultima" as well as the Opticron Adventurer T WP seems far better quality to me. But even with those models some people seemed to have alignment issues. But both my 6.5x and 8x are just fine, no alignment issues. I even used the 6.5x32 for astronomy and you'd very quickly notice if there were alignment problems when using them on the stars. They are nice for sweeping the milky way.
So, I'd definitely take the "Ultima" or Adventurer over any "Skymaster" models.