How Good Are ORION's Celestron scopes ???

ORION's new line of SCT's are listed as Celestron OTA's with Starbright XLT coatings....are these the same quality as the SCT's normally purchased thru Celestron??????

Only Celestron could possibly answer that - and I doubt they would tell you. But, if I had to guess, I'd say they are nothing more the the same OTA's in a different color. The only time I've ever heard of Celestron creating different quality OTA's in the same line were with the Japan only "white" tubes - which were rumored to be hand picked and assembled - but this was never official - or really proven.