The Universe harbors a few fundamental questions, with one of them being, "how far?" Type Ia Supernovae — stellar explosions known as standard candles due to their consistent luminosity — allows us to answer this question by acting as the tools for measuring galactic distances. Previous attempts by NASA to measure the distance to galaxy NGC 5643 all employed the Tully-Fisher method, which has a much greater uncertainty compared to analyzing the light curve of a Type Ia supernova within the galaxy. This project will take raw data from the SDSS telescopes and apply a variety of data-correction techniques (correcting for exposure times, galactic dust, and standard stars) to plot a graph of supernova magnitude vs. time. Taking the distance modulus — the difference between the peak magnitude and the magnitude 15 days later — we will be able to find the distance to the supernova and the galaxy it is contained in. Finding the distance to faraway galaxies is also essential for calculating the expansion rate of the universe, and other scientists could use the results of this project in their own research