diabloblanco17,
If your install of Celestia is crashing with your textures it sounds like they may be out of normal size range. Remember that all textures in Celestia must be power of 2. So if you texture is say 20000x10000 than you would have o reduce its size to 16384x8192 or if it was 10000x5000 to 8192x4096. Yes you will loose some detail, them is the breaks. Celestia is stuck to using texture sizes of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.....
So make sure your textures are the right size and that they are in a compatilble format .jpg, .png, or converted to .dds. Also if you are not converting to .dds make sure you install the line "CompressTexture true" into your solarsys.ssc or add-on.ssc. It should look like this.
"Planet4" "Star12"
{
Texture "Planet4.png"
NightTexture "Planet4night.JPG"
CompressTexture true
Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
This compresses the textures on the fly. Very usefull for testing a large texture before converting to .dds. I used to use it all the time. But now I just take th extra step and convert and test in .dds
Hope this helps. Wolud love to see some screen captures of your great textures rendered in Celestia.
Don. Edwards